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Synth Britannia

vronsky — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:27:35 -0800

Synth Britannia "Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage. In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including the Human League, Daniel Miller and Cabaret Voltaire were inspired by Kraftwerk and JG Ballard and dreamt of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain."

Krautrock - The Rebirth of Germany

philip-random — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:37:56 -0800

Krautrock - the movie Documentary which looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war. (download info in some of the comments)

"...and finally the robots and music non stop..."

Artw — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:12:19 -0800

Ralf Hütter of Kraftwerk gives a rare interview to the Guardian, who also have a rather nice interactive feature on the bands influence.

Kraftwerk

empath — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:11:39 -0800

Kraftwerk and the Electronic Music Revolution. (amazon) A 3 hour long documentary detailing Kraftwerk's influences and career. Influences and friends: Amon Duul II (wiki) Can 2 (wiki) Pierre Schaeffer (wiki) Karlheinz Stockhausen wiki Tangerine Dream 2 (wiki) Kluster (wiki) Ash Ra Tempel (wiki) Popol Vuh (wiki) Forbidden Planet (wiki) Klaus Schulze (wiki) Harmonia (wiki) Of course, lots of Kraftwerk links: Their first group, Organisation (wiki) These are roughly in chronological order: Ruckzuck Von Himmel Hoch Kling Klang Strom Tanzmuzik Ananas Symponie Autobahn Radioactivity Trans Europe Express Hall of Mirrors Das Model Metropolis The Robots Numbers Pocket Calculator Those that came after: David Bowie & Eno 2 Eno & Cluster Georgio Moroder 2 (wiki) Jean Michel Jarre (wiki) Yellow Magic Orchestra (wiki) Human League (wiki) Soft Cell (wiki) Gary Numan wiki Afrika Bambaata (wiki) Not enough electronic music history? Follow up with these excellent documentaries: High Tech Soul (the history of techno music) Pump up the Volume 2 3 The history of house

Florian quits werk.

grounded — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:26:52 -0800

Florian Schneider quits Kraftwerk. Posted here on 21 November but just making the news rounds now. Andy Gill remembers the Lennon and McCartney of Electropop. 39 years ago, it started like this.

WFMU-TV

vronsky — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:47:55 -0800

WFMU-TV; That's Irritainment (Heino, Shatner): Baby Octopus: Love Onion: Hisao Shinagawa: Organisation- Ruckzuck (Kraftwerk): You Must Choose!: FAUST.

The Tone Generation, A Radio History of Electronic Music

jack_mo — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:15:34 -0800

The Tone Generation is a radio series by Ian Helliwell 'looking at different themes or composers in the era of analogue tape and early synthesizer technology'. The original globe-trotting series: Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, USA, Canada, Rest of World. Bonus programmes: Expo 58, The RCA Synthesizer. All links are to MP3 files, except the first one. Alternatively, you can slurp down the lot in one go by subscribing to the podcast feed.

Kommen Sie bitte, und listen to Kraftwerk

Frasermoo — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:28:09 -0800

Kraftwerk have been around for nigh on forty years. They take a bit of getting used to if you are new to them, but the rewards are great. Even if you are a cynic. Kraftwerk defined a German push in post-war identity and subsequently laid foundations for the 4 to the floor that alot of us love as well as ambient, trance and chill-out... so Kommen Sie bitte, und listen to Kraftwerk.

R.I.P. Klaus Dinger, the king of motorik

porn in the woods — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:08:49 -0800

Klaus Dinger, drummer and co-founder of Krautrock titans Neu! (with Michael Rother) and drummer on the first Kraftwerk LP, has passed away at age 61. A sad day for motorik fans. Great post from February about the KraftNeu! collaboration.

Roger Mainwood's 1979 animated film of Kraftwerk's 'Autobahn', plus other assorted forward-thinking clips featuring the same music and/or theme

Item — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:06:59 -0800

Autobahn, a 12 minute animated film by Roger Mainwood, was commissioned by Kraftwerk's record label in 1979 to be released on one of the first ever laser discs. Here's a quick 'making of' featurette, a short interview with the filmmaker, and several live versions of the epic and innovative track. Bonuses: Die Mensch-Maschine - 1982 Austrian television documentary on the group: one, zwei Undated piece featuring interviews with former members Karl Bartos and Wolfgang Flür: eins, two

Early Kraftwerk @ YouTube

misteraitch — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:08:06 -0800

Early Kraftwerk @ YouTube, from when they still had long hair—Ruckzuck live on WDR TV in 1970; Truckstop Gondolero (aka Rückstossgondoliere), a 1971 performance where the line-up is Florian with Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother, later of NEU!; Heavy Metal Kids (audio only), also from 1971; and a lovely version of Tanzmusik (1973). The band are more recognisable in a snippet from Autobahn, as feautured in the British pop-science TV show Tomorrow’s World in 1975. Bonus tracks: Silver Forest by Ralf & Florian’s pre-Kraftwerk outfit Organisation; and Organisation’s rendition of Ruckzuck. Also, a tantalisingly brief clip of NEU! playing an early version of their song Hero, in 1974.

Japanese JB Juxtaposition Jamboree

Burhanistan — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:08:01 -0800

Interpreted: James Brown meets Kraftwerk.

My mother is a fish.

John of Michigan — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:34:06 -0800

Faulkner or machine translation? Who wrote it? William Faulkner or some German-translating computer robot program? You decide!

they're also available for weddings and bar mitzvahs

LimePi — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:08:44 -0800

Global Fussball OK (video)

Rock out with your Kraut out

cloeburner — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:39:46 -0800

Krautrock: From the hypnotic rhythms and melodies of Can, to the revolutionary electronics of Kraftwerk. Krautrock was a genre that spawned many genius acts. The communal bands like Amon Duul II and Siloah that were soon to be emulated by cult-like restaurant owners, Ya Ho Wha . There were the obscure acts like Zweistein whose sound evokes thoughts of current bands like Animal Collective and Wooden Wand. And there were albums the ground-breaking albums like Tangerine Dream's dark, ambient, Phaedra and the Manuel Gottsching record E2-E4 which is considered to be the first techno album ever produced. Needless to say, Krautrock's influence has been lasting and monumental.

Boing Ping Boom Tschak!

starscream — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 10:23:59 -0800

The real Kraftwerk pocket calculator! With a sound sample of it playing 'Computerwelt'. I never knew this existed!

Boing-Boom-Tschak!

swordfishtrombones — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:37:19 -0800

Music Non Stop Create your own version of the Kraftwerk classic. Or make those silly robots dance. Lots of cute little 80s retro flash stuff.